// what it does

+Now-playing controls for Apple Music and Spotify
+Reminders and tasks inside the notch
+Clipboard history with search, pinning, and quick re-copy
+Pomodoro timer with focus and break phases
+Weather, battery, calendar, and virtual pet widgets
+Camera mirror toggle with configurable shortcuts and sneak-peek timing

// preview

// the build

BoringNotch+ turns the MacBook notch—or the top menu bar on Macs without a physical notch—into a compact productivity surface for media controls, reminders, clipboard history, Pomodoro sessions, and everyday widgets.

This is not a commercial version of BoringNotch. The source is freely available on GitHub, and the Gumroad link is an optional donation that supports the time, testing, signing, and release work behind the prebuilt Apple-signed and notarised build.

The enhanced build adds Apple Reminders and tasks, a virtual pet, glanceable weather, a full Pomodoro timer with visual and audio feedback, Clipboard 2.0 with search and pinning, a camera mirror toggle, and UI and performance improvements. Existing BoringNotch modules such as Now Playing, battery, calendar, and sneak peeks remain part of the wider experience.

I extended and shipped the project in Swift and SwiftUI, working within the constraints of a narrow notch surface rather than treating it like a conventional app window. The utility uses a borderless, always-on-top panel positioned from the display safe area, and it accounts for notched and non-notched Macs, fullscreen applications, display changes, and live widget state.

This project is a practical example of contributing to an open-source macOS app: understand an existing product, add focused features that solve real workflow problems, and make the result easy to install without taking away the ability to build from source.

is a free, enhanced build of the open-source BoringNotch project by TheBoredTeam.